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Part of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) renown as a classic truancy film and Chicago landmark travelogue is the über-modernist glass and steel house with the disaster-inviting garage from which Ferris launches the priceless 1961 Ferrari belonging to friend Cameron’s father. The house (and garage), of course, is a metaphor for Cameron’s sad and lonely home life. As Ferris, the budding architectural critic, explains to his vaguely suicidal foil, “The place is like a museum. It’s very beautiful and very cold, and you’re not allowed to touch anything.”

Attention melancholy home buyers in search of beautiful and cold! This 1953 Miesian knockoff of cinematic fame, located in Chicago’s tony Highland Park suburb, is now for sale for $2.3 million. Designed by “Less is More” disciples A. James Speyer (1913-1986) and David Haid (1928-1993), the 5,300-square-foot house is being sold “as is” (two of the most anxiety-producing words in real estate). Selling point: Because the house is sited over a maintenance-free ravine instead of a lawn, the new owner can route those savings right to the perpetually depleted HVAC fund.